Regional Sourcing Manager

Husky Technologies™ is a company with a strong foundation built on innovation, close customer relationships, a strong sense of community, and unique culture and values. We offer a wealth of opportunity for personal growth and development, challenging work with a team of great people, and a chance to lead change in a dynamic environment.

Our United States manufacturing facility is located in Milton, Vermont on a beautiful 700-acre campus just 30 minutes north of downtown Burlington. Features include an onsite cafeteria, open office concept, fitness center, intramural sports activities, and clean, state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities with outstanding safety records.

About the role

Act as the primary contact and relationship manager while supporting the global strategic sourcing team to develop, prioritize, and execute “in-region” sourcing initiatives that reduce supply chain complexity, achieve material productivity targets, and support global operations with best-in-class supplier on-time and quality performance.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supplier on-time delivery, cost, and quality performance management within supplier portfolio.
• Execute high-level spend analysis and part-level cost analysis to identify trends and patterns for global reporting and communicating areas of cost savings opportunity.
• Lead change management exercises that impact suppliers within portfolio in support of sourcing strategy execution.
• Act as the primary relationship manager within region and commodity portfolio.
• Project management of supplier performance improvement, cost reduction, and sourcing projects in region.
• Support buyers and supplier quality engineers as the escalation point to suppliers within portfolio.
• Understand the requirements of all internal customers related to the specific commodity group and support those customers with resolution of any supply chain-related issues.
• Understand supplier capabilities and capacity to secure uninterrupted and reliable supply.
• Understand commodity market in the applicable region and provide regional expertise & input for definition of global sourcing strategies.
• Facilitate communication between engineering, operations, and suppliers for supply chain-related issues and opportunities.
• Support supplier quality engineer and suppliers with supplier audit process and part qualifications.
• Establish & maintain procurement, inventory, IP, and confidentiality agreements for existing suppliers.

Core Competencies

• Drive for results: Stays focused on the “critical few” while effectively managing day-to-day tasks. Capable of setting and achieving long-term goals. Self-starter with humility, who identifies problems and seeks solutions without constant guidance.
• Problem Solver: Demonstrated ability identifying problems, offering solutions, and seeing corrective actions through to completion. Works through adversity while remaining positive and seeking “Win/Win” solutions.
• Communication Skills: Capable of building and maintaining key relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders at all levels. Strong negotiator and facilitator across disciplines, capable of aligning multiple stakeholders to achieve bold goals.
• Technical Aptitude: Advanced analytical skills with demonstrated ability to use data to support decisions with empirical evidence. Capable of understanding engineering documents and familiarity with various manufacturing processes.

Requirements

• Electrical or semi-conductors background or specialization in the field.
• Experience with electrical/technology suppliers or the semi-conductor market.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite, specifically Excel for data analysis.
• Ability to forge relationships both internally and externally with suppliers.
• Technical understanding of manufacturing processes (an asset).
• Analytical acumen and understanding of “total cost” concepts.
• Understanding of lean manufacturing principles; experience with process mapping.
• Comfort traveling to assess and evaluate potential new suppliers, technologies, and products.
• Prior negotiation experience (an asset but not mandatory).

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education or equivalent experience required.
• 5-7 years of supply chain experience (ideally in the electronics market).

Contacts & Communication

• Internal: Senior management, Purchasing, Engineering, and Manufacturing team members.
• External: Suppliers.

Pay

$86,800–100,000

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package.
• Annual incentive bonus.
• Outstanding 401k contribution and match program.
• Shift work premiums (25% for afternoon shift and 40% for evening shift).
• Onsite gym facility and cafeteria.
• Access to 700 acres of private land for walking, biking, running, or cross-country skiing.